Big Town (1950)
- Directed by
- Gunther von Fritsch, Mark Stevens, Busby Berkeley, Charles F. Haas
- Genre
- drama television series
- Country
- United States
- Length
- 6 seasons, 249 episodes
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A newspaper editor fights corruption and crime in a big city. The series follows his investigations and confrontations with wrongdoers.
noirishdramaticpacyseriousold-fashionedgrittyaction-oriented
What happens
Big Town is a popular long-running radio drama featuring a corruption-fighting newspaper editor initially played from 1937 to 1942 by film star Edward G. Robinson in his first radio role, with echoes of the conscience-stricken tabloid editor he had played in the film Five Star Final. Edward Pawley played the lead role longer, 1943–52, in plots that made the editor more of a hands-on crime-fighter. During the later Pawley years, Big Town was adapted to film and television series, and a comic book published by DC Comics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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